Regulator system



March 19, 1929. v w, MENZlEs 1,705,672

v REGULATOR SYSTEM Filed June 14, 1923 WITNESSES: INVENTOR MY/zbm E Menzies.

. ATTORNEY Mar. 19, 1225.

warren STATES PATENT clerics- VJ'ILLIAM E, OF IRWIN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR- TO WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & IVIANUFACTURIIIG: CONT-PATTY, A CORPORATION GE PENNSYLVANIA.

REGULATOR SYSTEM.

Application filed. June 14,

My invention relates to regulator systems and more particularly to regulator systems for maintaining a number of machines at definite relative speeds that are variable at will.

One object of my invention is to provide a regulator system that shall govern a speed of a number of motors and that shall maintain a substantially constant speed ratio between them.

Another object of my invention is to provide a regulator system of the above-indicated character in which the amount of correction oi" the speed upon each motor is directly proportional to its angular displacement from normal with respect to a master speed reference means.

In many industrial applications, it is sential to operate a number of rotating members a constant speed, or to maintain a constant speed ratio, variable atwill, be tween a number of moving parts. Thus in the case of paper makin machines, it is necessary that the speed ratios between the several paper rolls'he maintained constant in order to prevent breaking the paper that is passed between the sets of rolls.

In a regulator system constructed in accordance with my invention as applied to a paper making machine, each set of paper rolls is individually motor driven and the various motors are so controlled as to maintain a suliistantially constant speed ratio between them.

In the accompanyingdrawing, the single figure is a diagrammatic view of a system of control organized in accordance with my invention for maintaining a plurality of machines at ditlerent rates of speeds and at the same time affording a convenient means for varying the speed relation.

hly invention comprises individually (h'ivcn members, each. member being driven by a direct current motor having an armatiire and a field. winding. In the circuit of the hold winding, a resistor is connected. A series of contact members connected to certain portions of the resistor are actuated in accordance with the speed of the driven motor. Another series of contact members also connect-ed to said resistor are actuated in accordance with the speed of a master speed reference means. These two sets of contact members are interconnected in such manner ply conductors 25.

1923. Serial'No. 645,280.

that a circuit for shunting a portion of the resistor passes through contact members in each series.

-Rel erring to the accompanying drawing, a plurality of sets of rolls 1, only two of which are shown for the sake ofsimplicity, are driven by direct current motors 2. Each motor 2 is provided with an armature 3 and a field winding 4 and drives the paper roll by means of a shaft 5, gear wheels 6 and 7 and shaft 8.

In the field circuit of the motor 2 is connccted a resistor 9, portions otwhich are adapted to be intermittently short circuited through the cooperation of com. members 10 and 11., as will be further explained. The cam 10 is driven in accordance with the speed of the paper roll 1 through gear wheels 12 and 18, shaft 14, cone pulleys 15 and 16 and shaft 17. The cam 11 is driven in accordance with the speed of a motor 18 termed a master motor and which acts as a master speed-reference means for controlling the speeds of the several roll meters 2.

The master motor 18 is provided with an armature 19 and a field winding 20. The armature 19 is connected to variable-voltage direct current conductors or bus bars 21 and 22 by means oi": the conductors 23 and 24. The arinatures 3 of the roll motors 2 are also connected to the variable voltage bus bars 21 and 22 by means of conductors 23 and 24. The field winding of the master motor is connected to constant-voltage direct current supply conductors or bus bars 25 and 26, by means of conductors 29 and 32. A manually operated rheostat 31 is pre- Q vided in the lield'circuit.

' One side of the motor field winding 4 is connected by means of conductors 27 to one oi the constant potential direct current sup- The other side of the field winding 4 is connected through the resistor 9 to the constant potential supply conductor 26 by means of the coruluctor 28.

The cam member 10 operates a series of contact arms or double-throw reversing switches 33, 34, 35, and 36. The cam 11 operates a similar series of contact arms or reversing switches 37, 38, 39 and 41. Contact arm 41 is connected by means of a conductor 42 to one terminal 48 of the resistor 9. Contact arms 38 and 39 are connected by means of the conductor 44 to a point 45 substantiallv midway of the resistor 9. Contact 36 would each be in the position opposite arm 37 connect-ed by m' of the conducl'lUifl that nlust 'ated and thus the seve 'al tor 29 with the other terminal of the resistor E- i-ti cit resistor i) would not be short-tan 9 which is connected to the supply conductor 26.

The contact arms 38 and 34: are connected, by means of conductor 4L6, toa point i? on the rests or 9 intern'iediate the terminal 4-3 and the point -15. The contact arms and 36 are connected by means of conductor 48 to a point 49 intermediate the point 4:5 and the othe' terminal oi the resistor 9.

T he contact arms and 234, and and 36, are yieldingly held in engz'i-gement with the airz 'ace of the cam member 10 as by springs contort, respectively,

and arc adapted to w th pairs ol contact members 5] and 52,

anti 5t, and 56,57 and 58. Similarly the contact arms 37, 38, 39 and 1-1 yieldingly engage the cam 11 and are respectively adapted to make contact with a pair of contact members (58 and 6?, (3G and G5, 0 and (33, i2 and till. The contact members 51 and Cl are connected by means of a conductor Tl. Sim larly contat members 52, 53, 5 t, 5:53, 536, 5'7 and 58 are connected respectively to contact members 62 and 63, Get, 65, 67, 68, by means of conductors 72 to 78.

It will app air from the structure described that the entire machine comprising the several rolls and the master speedare'fei means may be 'th voltage ot the supply conductors or bus bars 21 and 522 as for exan'iplc, by the well will apa variation in the speed of or 2 i th respect to the master 1110- will rar the el'i'ec' ive value of the by varying the duration of shortlxrnown lVardJieonard system. I pear, the In t u' the several portions of the res? by means oi cams 10 and 11. In the I ions shovn. cam 10 has a phase disnt of behind cam 11 assuming a clock-wise roaition of the cam members.

,c' the control circuits for this potion ol the cams beginning at terminal 4:3, ili)llf fl! conductors 42-, contact arm 41, conact member (51, conductor 71, contact memis 5i, contact arm 33 and conductor 46, it s apparent that ll c section from point 13 to pain t? o'i' the resistor 9 slmrt-circuitcd. t is likewise apparent in tracing "from point 4-: through conductor 1-6, contact arm 34-, contact members 53 and 63, coutziuft a m $59,

and ecnifluctor 4:11: to the point 45 that the section from point 4? to point 45 of resistor 9 lilc vi" sl'iort circuited. Likewise by tracing it ilar circuits for the sections between points il-.5 and i9 to conductor :28, it will be apparent that these sections are also short-circui-ted.

It will likewise be apparent that, it the cam 10 were 180 in advance of the position shown, or at a phase angle of 90 ahead 01" the cam 11, the contact arms 33, 34, 35 and thus giving the full effect of the in p ase displacement, and to proportionally shorten the duration of time of short-circuiting the various segu'iei'lts as the rain 10 advances with respect to the ram ll. is the motor 2 descreases its speed with respect to the master motor 18, the cams l0 'l l. cooperate to weaken the field ol the motor 2 and t is increase its speed while it the motor 52 tends to run ahead of the m ster motor 18, the cams cooperz te to cagthen the field of the motor 2 and thus decrease its speed.

The shatv ot the master motor may have a separate cam 11 for each section motor to be controlled or, as is obvious, a single master C1111 may be provided with a number of contacts on each contact arm which may establish connection with several conneted in the field circuits ot to be regulated.

, ibec structural details are serving only to il- .1 ,rinciple of operation of the Other modifications in the system in the arrangement and location of parts may no made within the spirit and scope of iii-y invention and such modifications are inendeu to be covered by the appended claims.

I claim as my invention 1. In a regulator system, the combination with a section motor to be regulated, and a control circuit, a plurality of double-throw contaetors in said control circuit actuated in accordance with the speed of said motor, a plurality of double-throw contactors in said control circuit actuated in accordance with the speed of said master speed-reference lll) n o ll means, said contactors cooperating to shortcircuit said field resistor for varying intervals of time.

3. In a regulator system, the combination with a section motor to be regulated and having a field circuit with a resistor therein, and a master speed-reference means, of a plurality ot control circuits, a plurality of double-throw contactors in said control circuits actuated in accordance with the speed of said motor, a plurality of double-throw contactors in said control circuits actuated in accordance with the speed of said masterspeed-reterence means, said contactors cooperating to shortcircuit portions of said resistor for varying intervals of time.

4. In a regulator system, the combination with a motor to be regulated and having a field circuit with a resistor therein, and a master speedneference means, of a plurality of double-thrmv contactors for controlling said resistor, certain of said COI'ltELCtOILSdJQ- ing intermittently actuated in accordance with the speed of said motor, and other of said contactors being intermittently actuated in accordance with the speed of said master speed-reference means.

In a regulator system, a master speedreierence means, a motor to be regulated, said motor having a field circuit, a resistor in said field circuit, means for intermittently shortcircuiting a portion of said resistor comprising a pair of double-throw reversingswitches, means for actuating one of said reversing switches in accordance with the speed of said master speed-reference means, and means for actuating the other of said reversing switches in accordance with the speed of said motor.

6. In a regulator system, a master speedreference means, a motor to be regulated,

reversin switches means for intermittentl reversing one member of the pairs of switches in accordance with the speed of said master speed-reference means and means for intermittently reversing the other switches in accordance with the speed of said motor.

7. In a regulator system, a master speedreference means, a motor to be regulated, said motor having a field circuit, a resistor in said field circuit, a pair of reversing switches, a conductor from said resistor to one of said reversing switches, a conductor from said resistor to the other of said reversing switches, a pair of conductors connected between said reversing switches, means .i'or actuating one of said reversing switches in accordance with the speed of said master speed-reference means and means for actuating the other of said reversing switches in accordance with the speed of said motor.

8. In a regulator system, a master speedreference means, a motor to be regulated comprising a field winding, a resistor in circuit with said field winding, cam-operated means for intermittent-1y short-circuiting a portion of said resistor comprising a doublethrow cont actor actuated in accordance with the speed of said master speed-reference means and a double-throw contactor actuated in accordance with the speed of said motor.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 6th day of June,

WILLIAM E. MENZIES. 

